The Bluebird Project

I saw this today!
46100 "Royal Scot" just outside Lancaster.
In the background is the Ashton memorial, seen by many thousands of people, when travelling North on the M6, not so far from the turn off for the Lake District!

I have to say I'm pretty gobsmacked, would never have believed it could have come to this! Anyway, good luck all at BBP & Novie, I'm sure our paths will cross again, somewhere, sometime! BTW Amazing how quiet other parts of "Soshul Meeja" are at the moment, compared to the beginning of...

Great stuff!
We've still got one or two "bullnose" types knocking about, the Deltics. There's a close up of one here, on a once in a lifetime special along the Heysham nuclear power station branch line.

55 years now!!!

Merry Christmas to the Team and the Bute Crew along with others who have been part of this project. [If you haven't looked at the Team 'tag' lately do so] from one member of 'Operations'. This is the first year that I have failed to get to the workshop for my usual one day! Have a good time with fa...

How about "the biggest steam train in the world" on the rails again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuJPVhtQFeQ

Here's some train stuff - "rebuilding" a locomotive, from scratch!
https://lms10000.co.uk/

https://bluebirdproject.com/forum/viewt ... ?f=2&t=277

Am I allowed to post this link? to a petition? to try & illustrate the popularity of the old girl? https://www.change.org/p/ruskin-museum-coniston-should-bill-smith-be-allowed-to-run-bluebird-this-summer?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_co...

fibo74 wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 5:26 pm Any southerly forum member off to Brooklands tomorrow for Auto Italia day?

@richie - JPS rotary engined Norton for me, Trevor Nation style...

I think you'll see (&, of course, hear!!) them all on this little compilation vid I made a couple of years ago -